Primary care physicians must be prepared to face urgent and emergent patient complaints and presentations in the office. How do you prepare your office for an emergency? What conditions can and should be treated in the office without the need to transport the patient? What entities require urgent/emergent transfer to the Emergency Department?...

Organized to approach patient problems the way you do, this best-selling text guides you through the evaluation of neurologic symptoms, helps you select the most appropriate tests and interpret the findings, and assists you in effectively managing the underlying causes. Its practical approach makes it an ideal reference for clinical...

A source of stability and mobility, the hip can withstand a lot of abuse before becoming seriously damaged. When injury occurs no one is happy and movement is often stressful. Fixing and repairing the injured hip is covered in this issue. Chapters in this issue cover hip fractures, stress fractures, instability, impingement, rehabilitation,...

Comprehensive, state-of-the-art reviews by experts in the field provide current, practical information on the management of intensive care patients. Each issue of Critical Care Clinics focuses on a single topic relevant to your interest, including trauma, blood transfusions, pediatric critical care, geriatric critical care, acute cardiac...

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Biology is based on the fundamental laws of nature embodied in chemistry and physics, but the origin and evolution of life on earth were historical events. This makes biology more like astronomy than like chemistry and physics. Neither the organization of the universe nor life as we know it had to evolve as it did. Chance played a central...